The Addams Family, the American television series based on the characters in Charles Addams’ New Yorker cartoons, along with The Munsters gave me years of entertaining and funny MONSTER Memories! I always loved these shows!
First Up, I have Uncle Fester’s Mystery Bulb
The box graphics on this thing are just killer and always were the best part of this novelty toy but I have to admit I walked around with this in my ear/mouth or anywhere I could get it to magically light up for hours on end. The ghoulish and ooky spooky Uncle Fester on the front in a creepy shade of green invited you to try this thing out daily!.
This bulb toy (with the help of a piece of aluminum foil) allowed Addams fans to perform this magic on their own. Dangerously enough as a lot of 60s 70s toys were you could easily screw this bulb into any lamp socket! Knowing this toy might cause a possible fire or electrocution would most certainly evoke a sly smile on the faces of the entire Addams clan. A creeped out and deranged, nostalgic memento from a 1960s TV show classic!Next Up is the ADDAMS FAMILY 1965 Thing Bank.
The bank is a battery operated novelty toy modeled on the disembodied hand (Thing) in the Addams Family. I LOVE the Thing and LOVED this bank. Not sure it produced much savings for me but it did produce hours of fun. Again the box graphics are amazing and inside the box you would find another small black box with a coin holder slot on top. Put a coin in it, the box starts to scarily shake like there’s something in it, then a green spooky hand moves up and grabs the coin. I remember this so well from my childhood I would run around and show anybody that was near me how this thing worked…LOL. This bank also came with a caucasian hand in later years…
